Read This: Build a House

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It’s a story that began with a song.

It is also a story that began long before the song or the book came to be.

The story began when the first enslaved people came to what is now the United States.

“You brought me here
to build a house...”

Rhiannon Giddens begins the song, and the text of Build a House.

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That first person perspective and economy of word winds through the story of building a house, raising crops, making a life, really for someone else, as Mikai’s i...